Netanyahu says world must learn lessons of Holocaust, combat Iranian influence
By APMonday, January 25, 2010
Netanyahu says world must learn from Holocaust
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister has called on the international community to band together against enemies calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments were clearly directed at Iran.
He spoke Monday at a ceremony held at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial where the blueprints of the notorious Auschwitz death camp were unveiled.
Netanyahu said the lesson of the Holocaust is to “stop bad things when they are small.”
He said: “There is new Jew-hatred in our midst. There are new calls for the extermination of the Jewish state.”
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly questioned the Holocaust and called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” Israel also fears Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
